Docs will likely face patient surge

8:01 AM,
Dec. 10, 2012

Staff discuss their medical cases Nov. 15 at St. Paul University Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

Written by

Sherry Jacobson
The Dallas Morning News

Angie Wang arrived at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School in Dallas after two years of working in a New York laboratory, trying to unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease. She expected to continue down that path or veer in the direction of another specialty that caught her attention, cancers of the blood. But in her third year of study, Wang spent a month working alongside an Irving, Texas, family practitioner and watching him interact with his patients. It set her in a whole new direction.

"I saw how the patients loved their doctor," she recalled. "It was a deep ...